Paid in Puke S9E4: Clueless

On season 9, episode 4 of Paid in Puke Podcast, we scratch the surface of Amy Heckerling‘s 1995 star-making high school comedy, “Clueless”, starring Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash, and Dan Hedeya. Heckerling wrote the script based on “Emma”, the classic novel by Jane Austen. 

Special guest, Katie Lee Ellison, joins us to talk about what the film meant to her as a 10-year-old living in L.A., the glaring flaws she sees today, and the ways in which this iconic film continues to influence her life.  

On Keggers w/ Kids, Baxter’s teen gives her modern take on this very 90s film. Plus: The Valley Horse Girl Test, and why Paul Rudd might not be as ageless as we once thought! 

Find Katie Lee Ellison on her website and insta, for information about her lectures, panels, and published essays!

Listen to the episode here!

November 20, 2023
Categories: Filmpinions, Pod People . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , . Author: Baxter . Comments: Leave a comment

Hammer to Nail Review: Bread and Butter

That line from Clueless popped into my head repeatedly as I watched Liz Manashil’s filmmaking debut. Brittany Murphy delivers the “way harsh” insult to Alicia Silverstone as a means for discrediting her. If you’re a virgin who can’t drive, who are you to give someone life advice? Of course, those characters are teenagers, so they aren’t exactly brimming with wisdom. Amelia (Christine Weatherup), the protagonist of Bread and Butter, is thirty years old.

Early on, Manashil cleverly establishes Amelia’s desire to “live in a French movie”. This sets the audience up to expect a certain quality of whimsy (that her name is so close to Amelie can’t be a coincidence). When she finds an annotated novel in a used bookshop, and vows to meet the man behind the notes, you think you know what’s coming. But Amelia is no Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She’s more like a Manic Normal Human Woman. And Bread and Butter, is a romantic comedy about what dating is really like for socially inept oddballs…

Read the rest on Hammer to Nail!

February 9, 2016
Categories: Filmpinions . Tags: , , , , , , . Author: Baxter . Comments: Leave a comment

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